Report Builder 2.0 did not get better in the RTM, or did it?

The Report Builder 2.0 Help says this about Query Designer

In this window you create a dataset in Report Builder 2.0

Notice the missing Radio Button for Tables

This is the Query Designer tool in Report Builder 2.0

No support for graphic design!!!

May be this is only what I see. If you see that everything is fine kindly leave a comment.

Looks like there has been a recent RC1 for the Report Builder. Now I am in hot pursuit of this one.

Google Chrome and XML Support

Google Chrome when it renders XML does not seem to use XSLT. Here are some of the screen shots. The first is representative of mature browers (IE 7.0, Firefox 3.1, and Netscape 8.1). The second from much leaner browsers (Safari, Opera and Chrome)

IE 7.0, Firefox 3.1, and Netscape 8.1

Safari, Opera and Chrome

Testing DOJO 1.1.1 page with Google Chrome

Here are some screen shots of how a DOJO 111 test page would render on different browsers including Google Chrome.

http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2008/09/dojo-111-test-page-on-google-chrome.html

Google Chrome Installation - No Fuss

Go to

http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html

Accept license by hitting Accept and Install button

You will be downloading the CromeSetup (474KB) file. Double click and in less than 3 screens you are finished installing.

When you double click ChromeSetup you start up a Google Chrome Installer which works really fast. When it is done you have the browser open on your desktop. Before it gets installed it seems to import stuff from IE.

It also makes an entry into the Add/Remove Programs window in the Control Panel.










The Google Chrome Welcome page shows up as shown here.

Hitting View all features shows more details of its features as shown here.

New tab, New Window can be opened from here.

Here you can access the tools,

One of the important menu items is Options. Here is what you see in the Options. Here I am setting up the Home page to open at my blog site:
http://hodentek.blogspot.com/

A little 'Home' icon will be added to the toolbar with the chosen option.

It has a 'Minor Tweeks' tabbed page as shown,

What you see under the hood is quite a lot,

Close this out and open the Home page. Here it is in all its chrome glory.

IE installs are time consuming. Firefox is OK but too frequent upgrades. Well, Chrome on that score appears fast without a fuss.

Why didn't they call it Growser?

Substitute multi-process for multi-thread and you have the major feature of the "Chrome" browser -Google's App /Web Browser. Of course there is a Process Manager(can we ever do without them) who is like a circus ring master taming the processes. Each process has its own JavaScript and basically is part of a multi-tabbed web page. If something happens to one of the processes the other can go on. It just looks like the time when we moved from DOS to Windows.

The web page works with tabs and each tab owns its resources, close the tab and it is done. Open a new one you start from scratch. If one tab goes kaput the others are OK. However, if you are used to 'Smiley face', now get used the 'Sad tab'. As you browse you will create and destroy processes and the manager keeps his 'tab' on the processes. Chrome also seems to have a better task manager. To bring it into production Google Engineers have entered over drive (make more money by overtime, that helps). I am looking forward to take it for a test drive and it will probably happen today.

Adapted from the Chrome comic at:
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html#